Daily E-Reviewsletter featuring ProSoundNetwork’s 135th AES Convention “Best of Show” Award Winners

October 22, 2013 The 2013 PAR Excellence Awards—PAR Subscribers: Vote Now! » New Products ProSoundNetwork’s 135th AES Convention “Best of Show” Award Winners » AKG K812 Reference Headphones » Maselec MTC-1X Mastering Console » Today's Product Review Mojave Audio MA-301fet Condenser Microphone By Russ Long for Pro Audio Review The MA-301fet is easily adaptable to virtually any recording application. The mic does a wonderful job of capturing vocals. I found the mic's bass roll-off to work well with vocals, sucking out the low-frequency muddiness without eating into the body of the vocal sound. Acoustic guitars record brilliantly with the MA-301fet. While I found the mic's forte to be vocals and acoustic guitars, the MA-301fet works well in nearly any situation. I tracked drums using one MA-301fet on the snare and one on the kick. The snare sounded fantastic: a big warm body and just the right amount of crack without the need for any additional EQ. The only downside is the mic's size, making snare placement a bit tricky. More » Today's Blog At AES: Loudness Wars Cease Fire Soon? by Strother Bullins The 135th AES Convention notably included the provocative subject of loudness in a number of Workshop and Tutorial venues. In Saturday’s “Loudness Wars: Leave Those Peaks Alone,” a panel of recording industry luminaries including Bob Ludwig and George Massenburg posed how contemporary music production, distribution and consumption habits have influenced countless engineers’ applications of excessive dynamics processing and encouraged the practice of data reduction, causing other overall negative effects. More » Events The NAMM Show 2014, Anaheim, California » 2014 NAB Show, Las Vegas »

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